1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819863703321

Autore

Dorondel Ștefan <1968->

Titolo

Disrupted landscapes : state, peasants and the politics of land in postsocialist Romania / / Stefan Dorondel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-121-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; Volume 8

Classificazione

MG 94915

Disciplina

333.7309498

Soggetti

Landscape changes - Romania

Deforestation - Romania

Peasants - Social conditions - Romania

Land use - Environmental aspects - Romania

Land use - Political aspects - Romania

Social change - Romania

Post-communism - Environmental aspects - Romania

Neoliberalism - Environmental aspects - Romania

Environmental policy - Romania

Romania Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Privatizing the state and the transformation of the agrarian landscape -- Dragomiresti and dragova : two centuries of ecological and socio-economic transformations -- Postsocialism as neoliberalism reorganizing society and nature -- Bureaucrats, patronage, illegal logging -- Contested forest -- Waning pastures -- Fragmented lands -- Wasted rivers -- Conclusion: A disrupted landscape -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

"The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from



collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation's forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape; 'This is clearly the best study on the environmental history of Romania published to date. It is a paragon of vivid, illustrative, and intimate local history combined with an international outlook'--Joachim Radkau, Universität Bielefeld; 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Disrupted Landscapes takes a broad view of the transformations taking place in rural Romania in the second part of the 2000s. It presents one of the most finely granulated pictures of the workings of power in rural settings'--Diana Mincyte, The City University of New York-New York City College of Technology"--From publisher's website.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996591270003316

Autore

Wolff Janet

Titolo

Austerity baby / / Janet Wolff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2017

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 262 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, facsimiles, portraits ; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

941.0820922

Soggetti

Art critics - England - Manchester

Art and society

Jews - Social conditions - 20th century

Jewish families

Jewish families - England

England Manchester

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

1. Atlantic moves --2. Provincial matters --3. Aliens -- 4. Colour (mainly blue) --5. Austerity baby --6. Tante Leonie --7. Houses and barns --8. Philately and chemistry --9. Spinster --10. Annunciation --Postscript --Acknowledgements --Family trees --Image credits --Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

"Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word."